Re: Linksys EG1032 rev. 3 patch

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:16:47 -0600
Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I picked up a Linksys EG1032 yesterday, and was surprised to see that it
> didn't work on FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5/i386. After some investigation I found
> out that apparently Linksys has silently changed the chip on the card.
> 
> The EG1032 is a standard 32bit PCI gigabit ethernet card. Two drivers
> already support a card by that name, according to the manpages and
> hardware notes:
> 
>   nge(4), which works with National Semiconductor DP83820 / DP83821
>   chips.
> 
>   sk(4), which works with SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x chips.
> 
> Now, this EG1032 I got here, marked as "rev. 3", comes with a Realtek
> RTL8169S chip. Unfortunately, it seems that the device ID was not
> changed, it is still 0x1032, which made the sk(4) driver try and fail to
> attach to the card.
> 
> I got the card working with the two patches below.
> 
> Cheers
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> --- sys/dev/re/if_re.c.orig     Sun Oct  2 05:31:06 2005
> +++ sys/dev/re/if_re.c  Sun Oct  2 05:34:02 2005
> _at__at_ -173,6 +173,8 _at__at_
>  		"RealTek 8110S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet" },
>  	{ COREGA_VENDORID, COREGA_DEVICEID_CGLAPCIGT, RL_HWREV_8169S,
>  		"Corega CG-LAPCIGT (RTL8169S) Gigabit Ethernet" },
> +	{ LINKSYS_VENDORID, LINKSYS_DEVICEID_EG1032, RL_HWREV_8169S,
> +		"Linksys EG1032 (RTL8169S) Gigabit Ethernet" },
>  	{ 0, 0, 0, NULL }
>  };
> 
> 
> --- sys/pci/if_rlreg.h.orig     Sun Oct  2 05:35:58 2005
> +++ sys/pci/if_rlreg.h  Sun Oct  2 05:38:54 2005
> _at__at_ -826,6 +826,16 _at__at_
>  #define COREGA_DEVICEID_CGLAPCIGT		0xc107
> 
>  /*
> + * Linksys vendor ID
> + */
> +#define LINKSYS_VENDORID			0x1737
> +
> +/*
> + * Linksys EG1032 device ID
> + */
> +#define LINKSYS_DEVICEID_EG1032			0x1032
> +
> +/*
>   * Peppercon vendor ID
>   */
>  #define PEPPERCON_VENDORID			0x1743
> 
> 

Sounds like the if_sk driver needs to be made more intelligent so that
it doesn't try to claim this card, yes?

Scott
Received on Sun Oct 02 2005 - 06:16:57 UTC

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